
The Wounded River
The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D.
Peter Josyph(Editor)
Michigan State University Press
Will be published approx. on 31. July 1993
Book
Hardback
253 pages
978-0-87013-328-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have come to frame and define accounts of America's bloodiest war. Of equal significance, Peter Josyph's editorial work on this superb collection of letters from the Western Americana Division of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library enhances and clarifies Lauderdale's experinces as a surgeon aboard the U.S. Army hospital ship D. A. January.
The reader looks on while Lauderdale, a New York civilian contract surgeon, operates on hundreds of Confederate and Union wounded. The young doctor's clear writing style and his great compassion for these unfortunate men whose bodies were ripped apart by bullets, shell fragments, and bayonets permits us to catch a disturbiing glimpse of what modern warfare does to humanity. Finally, we learn of Lauderdale's motives for volunteering, his impressions of the "hospital ship" D. A. January, Confederate morale, the Abolitionist cause, and black slavery. The Wounded River is a must read for anyone interested in the real American Civil War.
The reader looks on while Lauderdale, a New York civilian contract surgeon, operates on hundreds of Confederate and Union wounded. The young doctor's clear writing style and his great compassion for these unfortunate men whose bodies were ripped apart by bullets, shell fragments, and bayonets permits us to catch a disturbiing glimpse of what modern warfare does to humanity. Finally, we learn of Lauderdale's motives for volunteering, his impressions of the "hospital ship" D. A. January, Confederate morale, the Abolitionist cause, and black slavery. The Wounded River is a must read for anyone interested in the real American Civil War.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-328-2 (9780870133282)
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Person
John Vance Lauderdale was a New York civilian contract surgeon who served with the Army during the Civil War as Major and Surgeon, at many battlefields, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peter Josyph is a bestselling author, editor, painter, and photographer.
Content
ContentsAcknowledgementsTextual NotePart I:The Seat of WarIntroductionThe LettersPart II:BellevueIntroductionThe LettersPart III:The Devil and Mr. LincolnIntroductionThe LettersAppendix AWalter Lauderdale on the DraftAppendix BThe Plantation Letters of Willis and Samuel LauderdaleNotesBibliographyIndex